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[–] nicetriangle@kbin.social 53 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This is just gonna be a Streisand Effect situation. Now I know about this app and it sounds pretty great.

[–] promitheas@iusearchlinux.fyi 30 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I sincerely hope so, just to imagine the shocked faces at the company that made legal threats to Tachiyomi, when it itself has no content. I mean how stupid can you be

[–] ram@bookwormstory.social 25 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Imagine if companies could just sue and take down products just because they could theoretically be used to view pirated content (not to pirate, but to view it).

Goodbye Adobe Acrobat Reader, v1 Nintendo Switches, all home PCs, Android phones, and web browsers,

[–] sanpo@sopuli.xyz 16 points 10 months ago

Well, it is essentially what they're doing already with DRM.

Try watching a full resolution stream on any paid streaming service using "bad" software, like Firefox or Linux.

[–] NotATurtle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Why stop there? You could use hardware to run this software.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 months ago

Ban screens.

[–] victron@programming.dev 3 points 10 months ago

I never saw it that way, but you're right. What a bunch of hypocrites.

[–] ReluctantZen@feddit.nl 1 points 10 months ago

web browsers

Hasn't something like this happened already? Not sure what platform it was (Android TV maybe?), but I vaguely remember something like that.

[–] harry_balzac@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe." - Unknown astronomer quoted by Fritz Perls in 1942

[–] plumbercraic@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

First I'm hearing of this drama. Guess I'll hold off on updating until the dust settles. Tachiyoma and Komga are amazing - glad to see they're not going anywhere.

[–] iSeth@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Update when you like The change is in live and does not effect installed extensions. It just makes adding sources harder.

[–] Akrenion@programming.dev 2 points 10 months ago

I lost some downloaded content and some extensions are broken (the files exist but the app fails to find them). It will probably work again soon.